Comparing historic records of storm frequency and the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) chronology for the Azores region

Holocene

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 745-754

  Andrade, C ^a   Trigo, R M ^a,b   Freitas, M C ^a   Gallego, M C ^c   Borges, P ^d   Ramos, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSIDADE LUSÓFONA DE HUMANIDADES E TECNOLOGIAS   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Azores; Documentary record; Historical evidence; NAO; North Atlantic Oscillation; Storm tracking; Storminess

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; DATA SET; DOCUMENTARY SOURCE; NINETEENTH CENTURY; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STORM; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TRACKING; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; AZORES; EURASIA; EUROPE; MACARONESIA; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 57249092249     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683608091794     Document Type: Article

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